Gobbledygeek episode 440, “FCF: Sweet Tooth,” is available for listening or download right here, on Spotify, and on Apple Podcasts.
Imagine a world where a global pandemic killed millions and changed society forever. Spooky stuff, huh? Well, take a break from reality with this month’s Four-Color Flashback: Sweet Tooth: The Deluxe Edition – Book One, comprising the first 12 issues of Jeff Lemire’s offbeat breakthrough about a little deer boy and the post-apocalyptic hell that awaits him in the wilds of Nebraska. Along the way, he meets a Frank Miller-style tough guy named Jepperd, who seems to be the grizzled protector to Gus’ naive innocent. It’s a little more complicated than that, of course. Paul and Arlo discuss Lemire’s weird, idiosyncratic artwork; the way he uses the faces and especially the eyes of his laconic characters to convey so much; and how the new Netflix adaptation is radically different.
NEXT: dust off that mail robot, it’s time for The Americans season 2 with British secret agent Wesley “Wezzo” Mead.
BREAKDOWN
- 00:00:47 – Intro / Banter
- 00:19:38 – Sweet Tooth: The Deluxe Edition – Book One
- 01:37:00 – Outro / Next
LINKS
- Sweet Tooth Filmmaker Jim Mickle on Reimagining the Apocalypse by Matthew Dessem, Slate
- Why Sweet Tooth Created a Friendlier Apocalypse by Alec Bojalad, Den of Geek
MUSIC
- “My Father’s House” by Bruce Springsteen, Nebraska (1982)
- “Out of the Woods” by Taylor Swift, 1989 (2014)
GOBBLEDYCARES
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